Vercel Agent sessions now cost 67% less
By Steven Van ·
The 67% average saving applies to dashboard and Slack sessions with no action needed, and billing rates stay the same.
Vercel Agent sessions in the dashboard and Slack now cost 67% less on average. Vercel rebuilt how Agent manages context, which cuts the tokens needed per session and improves prompt-cache reuse. The changes are live and need no action from users, according to the changelog.
What changed
- Workflow-based CLI skills: updated Vercel CLI skills give agents clearer guidance for common workflows and error recovery. Other agents that use these skills also benefit.
- Incremental context management: Agent handles context more efficiently as conversations grow, including long Slack threads.
- Improved prompt caching: Agent preserves more reusable context across turns, so more of it can be read from the cache.
- More efficient coding and planning: updated guidance helps Agent plan changes and write code with fewer tokens.
Billing
Billing rates are unchanged. Paid sessions are billed at the model provider's inference rates plus a Vercel Agent fee of $0.25 per million tokens. The saving comes from sessions using fewer tokens. Usage and costs appear in the Agent section of the dashboard.
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